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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

The forestry division of the department
of agriculture at Washington makes the
request that some person in each town in
the country, where Arbor Day has been
observed, send an account of the observ-
ance of the day, the number of kinds of
trees planted, etc, and any facts of interest
connected with the day. Burlington's re
port can easily be written. There are many
places where the shade trees are so thick
as to shut out needed light and air, OBJ
struct the views and make dwellings
gloomy and unwhoesome. In such places
Arbor Day should be observed with the
axe as well as the shovel; and Burlington
is one of them. That is to say there are
portions of our city which need fewer in
stead OF more trees.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

Mr., George Clark, who was called the
heaviest landowner in the State of New
York, failed with liabilities of Sl,OOO,OOO
According to the Syracuse JOurndl he
mortgaged back the farms he bought. and
then borrowed money to pay the interest
on his mortgages. His capital was his
credit, and when his credit failed the col
lapse was inevitable.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

Some of the more outspoken Canadian
newspapers express much disgust at the
frequent attitude of the Dominion govern
ment in the fisheries question. The Tor
onto Globe remarks that Canadian cruis-
ers have been ordered to stay in port till
further orders may signify that the Wash
ington authorities have graciously con-
sented to accept the surrender of the
fisheries" 1t is not always graceful or
easy to back down, but sometimes it be
comes disagreeable necessity.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

Once and for all, DR.. McGlynn has been
ordered to appear at Rome within forty
days, or suffer the extreme penalty of eX-
communication. He still declares that he
will not 90. If he is communicated
there will be serious troublei in the Roman
Catholic church in New. y DIRK city-per-
haps even a split in the Roman church in
the United States.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

Munkacsy has found another purchaser
or one of his famous works of art, in this
country. Ex-Gov. Alger of Michigan has
just paid the artist s50,OO0 for his Last
Days of Mozart"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

The corner stone of the great LELAND
Stanford, jr., university which will be
one of the most magnilicently endowed
institutions of learning in the world--was
laid at Palo Alto, Cal, Saturday The
university is founded by Senator Stan
ford, in memory of his son. We wish
that more of the worlds millions could
he devoted to such worthy and noble
usps
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

Thursday was the busiest day which
Castle Garden has known during its en-
tire history. Thirteen steamships came
in together with an aggregate of $500 i'm
migrants. Every nation in Europe was
largely represented in the swarm and the
numbers of the multitude swamped all
the existing arrangements for feeding,
registering and shipping the new corners.
This one days rush was in part a conse-
quence of three days fog which de-
tanned a number of vessels off Sandy
Hook. But the tide of immigration is
setting to this country at tremendous
rate
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

The associated railroads have decided to
give travelling theatrical parties of forty
or more persons rate of two cents mile
and make the charge for hauling extra
baggage cars, twenty-five cents mile for
distances under 500 miles. No concessions
will be made to small theatrical parties
under the inter State commerce law.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

The New York papers say that a myster-
ious and powerful clique is engineering
an enormous wheat corner in Chicago.
The syndicate is represented as holding
100000 bushels of wheat 1t is further
stated that number of those concerned
are closely connected with the Standard
Oil company. Unless this organization is
belied, its money lubricates a good many
great gambling deals in the country.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

Master Workman Powderly, in his last
circular recommending general cele-
bration of next Fourth of July by the
Knights, denounces with gratifying en-
ergy the anarchists who would destroy
our free government, and admonishes the
Knights to use only the American flag, as
testifyng their loyalty to the United
States
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20
A Wedding and Death mt the Same
Time

A death and a marriage in the same
house at almost the same time took place
in Dover, n. H., the other day. A 2-year-
old daughter of Mrs. George Moore fell
down stairs and caught her dress on a nail.
Her clothing became entangled around
her neck aud choked her to death At
the same time Mrs Moore's sister was be-
ing married in the parlor below. During
the marriage ceremony the child had wan
dered from the room upstairs.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

The people appear to stick largely to the
title of Decoration Day" for Memorial
Day. Possession is n'ne-tenths of the law
in regard to phrases MS we'll as to land.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

The American exhibition in London
opened with great eclat. Among the dis
tinctively American features of the open
ing day were the appearance of Buffalo
Bill and his Indians, and the explosion of
a boiler in the machinery department.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

The New York detectives, who were
put on the last New Haven, Conn. muir
der, accomplished their work in four days.
The murderers, two burglars, who chloro-
formed and then sutfocated their victim,
in gagging her, while they robbed her
house, are in Jail and have confessed their
crime
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

This may not be very good year for the
railroads, but the New York Central rail
road will divide q, OO0,O 600 among it's bloat-
ed stockholders this year.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

The Florida Legislature is still hope
lessly balloting for United States senator,
with the thermometer in the ninetes. 1t
is singular thing that the State of
Florida has not citizen who can com
mand the votes of a majority of her Leg
islatura
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

Editor O'Bren's friends in this country
are congratulating him on his election
without opposition to the seat in the
British House of Commons for the north
east division of Cork, made vacant by the
resignation of the sitting member.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

Chairman Cooley of the Interstate com
mission declares that the reports of our
consuls in Canada, representing the dam
aging influence of the new law upon the
trade of the United States with Canada,
are eXaggerations. This is very likely to
be so. There is SO much opposition to the
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20
ELLINGTON. FRIDAY. MAY 20, 1887

The Pennsylvania Legislature has put
fortune tellers under the ban. Bank tel
lers still have the right of way to Canada.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

Lake Erie throws our Lake Champlain
sea serpent into the shade with monster,
alleged to have been seen one day last
week near Toledo, by two French fisher
men. Their serpent had arms which it
tlourished in the air. 1t emitted phos-
phorescent light from its whole body, and
left signs of its presence on the shore. in
the shape of scales as big as a silver dol
lar. The Ottawa county whiskey seems
to be pretty poor article.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

joys the distinction of having had a longer
session and taken more money from the
taxpayers of the State, than any previous
Legislature of the nutmeg commonwealth
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

Mr.. H. V. Poor one of the most reliable
of our railroad statisticians says that the
railroad stocks of the United States are
watered to the extent of three billions of
dollars. No wonder this has been ter
rible season for freshets.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

California. There are two ways of getting
California fruit East in single cars at
tached to passenger trains and in ten
car fruit trains running on strictly pas
senger time. Last year single car on the
passenger train cost 5000 to Chicago. Be-
lore the interstate commerce law went
into effect, negotiations were pending
which would bring the cost of transporta-
ton down to $500 per car This would per
init the entire crop to be shipped and placed
upon the market at low price. with a
fair margin of profit for the dealer
Should, however, the interstate com.
merce bill interfere with these nepotia.
lions, California grapes and oranges will
either have to be placed upon the homo
market at ruinous prices or shipped East
at loss to the dealers. Here is an in.
stance, we should think, where the inter-
state commission might we'll exercise its
official clemency-if necessary-for the
benefit of a young and growing industry
According to the London correspondent
OF the New York sun, the American ex-
hloltlon is a fraud and failure, and is do
ing as much injury to America as a small
thing can do" The SUMS correspondent
says of the exhibition:
1t is in long shed, and contains some
flags and liberal display of porcelain
teeth and extract Of beef. Unfortunately.
as Americans here have feared would be
the case, the British press insists upon
taking the thing seriously, and one paper
declares that whatever belief Englishmen
had in the American enterprise has been
wiped out The fact that the prime mover
IN the affair is an Engllshman, without
any of the traits which make American
business men respectable, has been entire
~ Ignored or overlooked. We are cred
tied as nation with having laid ourselves
out to produce a dismal failure, which
even Buffalo Bills clever circus can scarce
ly hope to retrieve
This exhibition from the first did not
ENJOY the confidence of the American pub
lie, and its merely mercenary character is
now apparent.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20
Canadian Longing for Reciprocity

Canadian Longing for Reciprocity.
Sir Charles Upper, Dominion minister
of finance, in his budget speech last week,
dealt with the fishery question. He said
| think we have right to expect from
Congress different course to that which
1t took when the president sent his appeal
to Congress for an international commits
sion. What did the people interested in
the fisheries say They said we do not
want to have anything to do with Cana
dian waters; we want no international
commission. The fish have all turned
south they are all coming into our wa
ters; we do not require to go into Cana
dian waters at all. We want no commits
sion, no international arrangement, but
simply to keep ourselves to ourselves and
let the Canadians do the same / think
that is very much to be regretted. | think
the interests of that great country and the
interests of Canada alike are bound IN
in close commercial relations and in
extended reciprocal relations. 1t would
be, III my judgment, a great calamity and
misfortune If anything were TO prevent
reciprocal trade arrangements with the
United States which would be rs they
were when they existed before, alike ben
e1clal to both countries. We know we
were satisfied with reciprocity, but we do
not conceal from ourselves, because the
statistics of their own country prove it
beyond question, that advantageous as
was the reciprocity treaty from 1854 for
twelve years to the people of Canada. it
was Infinitely more advantageous to the
people of the United States.
Whatever else the Dominion officials
say, they always come back to the sub
ject of reciprocity. 1t is reciprocity they
want They say, with the utmost truth,
that they were satisfied with reciprocity
as we'll they might be. They also demon
strate to their own. satisfaction that the
United States ought to be satisfied with
reciprocity. If they could only demon.
strate this to the satisfaction of this
country, the case would be quite a
different one. The United States put an
end to the reciprocity treaty because, in
the shape in which it existed and under
the legislation prejudicial to our manufac-
turing and other interests which Canada
enacted after the treaty went into effect,
1t had ceased to be advantageous to us.
This country gets along very well without
reciprocity with Canada. And the sooner
the Dominion statesmen dismiss the bee
of reciprocity from their bonnets, and adj
dress themselves to a settlement of the
fisheries question on its own merits. the
better it will be for all concerned.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

Somebody has called the American peo-
pie "a race of civilized vandals" There
is considerable truth in the charge. Mod
ern iconoclasts are abundant, as many a
monument of historic value can testify. 1t
is said that it will be necessary to close the
doors of the Washington monument be
cause the.relic hunters have begun to tear
1t to pieces and carry it Off Although the
aim has been to give passes only to those
who seemed to be orderly and decent peo-
pie, the result has shown that many of
them have been vandals of the worse type
AS the stairways are totally dark, visitors
have been in the habit of carrying candles.
These lights have been handled so care
lessly that many of the choicest carvings
have been badly smoked. Then many of
the stones have been disfigured by the
pencilings of names and pictures, the most
beautiful of the valuable and historic
marbles being generally selected for dis
hgurement. Valuable stones have been
Clipped for relics, and letters have been
carried off entirely. AS the officers in
charge of the monument are not numer-
Gus enough to prevent this vandalism, the
monument will be closed to every one
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

A Washington correspondent says that
the female clerks are gradually being
ousted from the departments. Since Sec
rotary Manning first took the treasury
portfolio and the new order of things was
begun, nearly 20 per cent of the women
have gone, and none have come in their
places. When a female clerk dies or gets
married, resigns or is dismissed a requisi
ton goes to the civil service commission
for man to fill the vacancy and some
good working democrat gets the place.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

A rather startling surmise is preached by
foreign correspondent. From the fact
that the British authorities have instruct
ed the governor of Millbank prison TO
prepare accommodations for 60 prisoners
of the first grade" the correspondent in
fers that the government intends to arrest
the whole Parnellte party in the House
of Commons This is absurd, and such
a suspicion could only get foothold in a
time of great excitement. The British
administration has not quite lost its head.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

Red Shirt, of the Wild West show, has
put his foot" into it again. After the
performance in London before Queen
Victoria and Princess Louise, he was pre-
sented to her majesty, and under the
genial influence of the royal favor, thaw-
ed out oratorically. He said that he had
come long way to see her majesty
He had heard of the great mother but
never expected to see her." He was glad
to see 'the squaw who was bigger than
any man." AS Victoria's proportions are
by no means of the spirituclle order, Red
Shirts flow of compliments was cut
short at this point by a nudge from the
Hon. Mr.. Cody.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

Interstate law in many quarters it is
hardly to be expected that its workings
will be fairly represented.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

The first month of the operation of the
Interstate commerce law has undoubted-
ly been pretty lrying month to the bust
ness interests of the country. Neverthe-
less there is reason to believe that when
the present difficulties involved in the
long and short haul clause are adjusted,
the law will prove beneficial to business.
The chief trouble at present is that the
railroads are in no hurry to agree on rates
among themselves. But of twenty FIVE
extensive shippers of goods by rail, inter
viewed by Bradstreets, the great major
ity expressed the opinion that the law
was good one, and gong to help bust
ness.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20
Prof Sumner on the Indian Ones
ton,

Prof. Sumner of Yale college is vigorous
thinker, and his views on public subjects
are apt to command attention whether
they command general assent or not. In
the May number of the Forum he dis
cusses the Indians OF 1887. Like others
who have dealt with this subject inteli-
gently and broadly, he does not believe in
the reservation system. He further holds
that it is bad plan to entrust the Indian
in his present state of development with
land in severalty, as is proposed un-
der the modified reservation system.
He contends that this plan gives land to
those who cannot properly develop it.
The Indians, he says, are still in the hunt
ing stage" and cannot at once adjust
themselves to the conditions of nineteenth
century civilization, so as to become
prosperous farmers. He would therefore
begin with an extensive system of in
dustrial education for the Indians. "They
learn herding easily" he says, land, fol.
lowing the course of nature, they should
do that for which they are
best adapted. and should not be
put to farming at once" Prof. Sumner
seems to have a rather lower estimate of
the intelligence and progress of the In
dians than most writer's on this subject
He says, rather sharply "The time will
come when the Indian must show whether
he is worth having in the world, and
whether he can take the responsibility of
developing himself" This would seem
to imply possibility that the Indian has
not the capacity for becoming citizen OF
civilized community. 1t is as though
the professor limited that the Indian be-
longs to ruder stage of the worlds his
tory, and being unable to adjust him
self to modern conditions, must, by
the law of the survival of the fittest, be
wiped out in the struggle for existence.
If this is what Prof. Sumner means, we
can not agree with him. If we under
stand the facts, whenever the Indian has
been granted proper educational advan-
tages, he has proved himself capable of
education, civilization and Christianiza-
ton. In the schools for the Indian youth,
the children show brightness and apt
ness for study which discredits the sup
position that the Indian constitutes an in
tellectually inferior race. We agree with
Prof. Sumner, that what the Indians need
is education; and, with this, we have
faith that they will show that they are
worth having in the world. ="
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-20

According to railroad statistics the OPP
Grafton of coupling cars costs annually, in
this country, in killed and wounded, as
much rs any year of the Mexican war.
The Iowa railroad commission states that
In Iowa, which has only five per cent OF
the railroad mileage OF the country l3l EN-
ployes have been killed and 965 severely
injured in coupling cars during the last
, 1887-02-25

While wrinkles result from the natural
working OF the system, they may also
be caused by n perverted condition of the
system, as are pimples, blotches and boils.
Now the human ~face-unlike that of
brutes-was INFANT to be the mirror Of
the mind, ~ the visible expression Of every
passion, emotion and inmost feeling.
Herein is its chief beauty. Hence it's nu-
merous muscles and nerves, whereby it is
so wonderfully adjusted to this end. But
muscles in constant or frequent exercise
increase in volume, strength and readi-
ness Of action.
Hence habits Of thought and feeling
become stamped on the face, aid we read
so easily the character of the proud, the
vain, the deceitful and the sensual man,
or OF the kind, the calm, the energetic,
the frank. the candid and the honest
man.
But there is nothing like care and
worriment to plow burrows in the fore
head, and these are badly marring the
faces of our American women We pass
in the streets women of 80 whose fore
heads are more wrinkled than the brow
should be at 20. Some OF these may
not have more cares than others, but
they unnecessarily yield to the tendency
to express them in the face. Youths
Companion.
, 1887-02-25


But tAe days of the noble old clippers
are gone. and / went to SEQ this veteran OF
the sea about the ships that trade with
Greenland. He and o business associate
W seven vessels engaged In this strange
trade No other American commercial
vessels go to the far Oh land OF Kane, Sir
John Franklin and SO many other gallant
men WHO ave 'braved the rigors OF its
highest ATTITUDES. The vessels go out In
ballast, Cor although Greenland imports
wheat, brandy, coffee, sugar, obacco and
firewood. It is not from this country.
They bring back a metal termed cryolite.
which they obtain at a port called Ivigtut,
on the southwest coast Of Greenland.
1t is a bleak country, even in the short
summer, during two months of which, I'm
June and July, the sun is always above
the horizon. Moses. stunted shrubs,
dwarfsh trees and huckleberry bushes are
abote-4e only vegetation, and the bare
mountains, m>the grip of great glaciers,
and the generally dead and desolate as
pect OF the country make It appear rs
strange and unreal as that gray corpse Of
a world, the moon. Cryolite looks like ice,
and hence the name signifies ice stone. II
is all taken to Philadelphia, II is used in
manufacturing soda, alum, I've, porcelain
piano keys, door knobs, clock dlals and
trade each carry about 800 tons Of this
strange mineral, and make fourteen voy-
ages in n year. Last year they brought
$500 tons TO this country --Oscar VII
aghby Riggs.
, 1887-02-25

There is one subject for the considera-
ton OF the many young men who wish
to embark in the cattle business that is
but too seldom presented to them. and
which they never seem to think of them
selves, and that Is the value of their in
dividual time. If u nan is the possessor
of a small capital-say $4,000, he will
figure or realizing a certain per cent,
which in most cases, by the way, will
prove fictitious. But he doesn't stop to
reflect that, since all of his time must be
given to make a success of the project, it
is only right that he should take into ac-
count the actual value of his services at
home. For example, 5000 at 20 per
cent. is 81, 900. Now, it is an open ques-
ton if a salary just as large as this
amount cannot be earned by the average
mar who gives the same devotion to his
work as that necessitated by successful
stock raising. If so, the $4,000 still re-
mains to him to place in some perfectly
safe investment at o per cent. yielding
$500 annually. OF course the ranch fever
has somewhat abated, but l think the
suggestion still holds good as one of vital
importance to all who would go West. -
Globe Democrat.